Boolean functions are essential to systems for secure and reliable communication. This
comprehensive survey of Boolean functions for cryptography and coding covers the whole …

Bent Functions: Results and Applications to Cryptography offers a unique survey of the
objects of discrete mathematics known as Boolean bent functions. As these maximal …

Advances in the design of Boolean functions using heuristic techniques are reported. A
genetic algorithm capable of generating highly nonlinear balanced Boolean functions is …

For the first time Boolean functions on 9 variables having nonlinearity 241 are discovered,
that remained as an open question in literature for almost three decades. Such functions are …

The cryptanalytic resistance of modern block and stream encryption systems mainly
depends on the substitution box (S-box). In this context, the problem is thus to create an S …

The Boolean functions satisfying secure properties on the restricted sets of inputs are
studied recently due to their importance in the framework of the FLIP stream cipher …

Boolean functions represent an important primitive in the design of various cryptographic
algorithms. There exist several well-known schemes where a Boolean function is used to …

Boolean functions are mathematical objects used in diverse domains and have been
actively researched for several decades already. One domain where Boolean functions play …

Boolean functions have numerous applications in domains as diverse as coding theory,
cryptography, and telecommunications. Heuristics play an important role in the construction …

Many desirable properties have been identified for Boolean functions with cryptographic
applications. Obtaining optimal tradeoffs among such properties is hard. In this paper we …